my favorite thing to lose
is my debit card
it’s easy to find and/or replace
people give it back to the bank or put it
in the lost and found or whatever
and if they don’t you can call the bank and the bank
people will take care of you
it’s much better than losing your keys or sunglasses or phone
it’s a thousand times better than losing
your head or your lunch or your cool or your mind or your marbles
and it’s a million times better than losing your heart
i mean where do you even look for a
heart once you’ve lost it
it didn’t fall out of your pocket in the parking lot and
nobody’s going to give it back to you
inevitably
somebody might try to use it without
your authorization
take out all your funds
do a lot of online shopping
run you into the red
because you can’t stop payment on a heart
you just have to let it sit in somebody else’s wallet and wait until all the
cash is gone
and maybe next week it’ll just end up back again
and maybe next month you can make a deposit again
and maybe next year you can start making direct deposits again
and maybe next century you can have enough credit built up to lose it again
I Started Late and Forgot the Dog. 
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